06-05-2024 16:12 via theguardian.com

Naoya Inoue boosts claim as world’s best boxer with destruction of Luis Nery

Japanese star comes off floor to claim victory in TokyoAs it happened: Bryan Graham’s round-by-round reportNaoya Inoue bolstered his claim as the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter on Monday when he came off the floor to retain his undisputed junior featherweight championship with a technical knockout of Luis Nery.A sold-out crowd of around 50,000 spectators at the Tokyo Dome was stunned into silence near the end of the opening round when a heavy left hook dumped Inoue to the canva
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